To dig a ditch or ditches.
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One who digs ditches.
To prepare for action or use; to make ready; to dight.
See Colophene.
Having two thec/, cells, or compartments.
The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism.
One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist.
Pertaining to ditheism; dualistic.
Containing two equivalents of sulphur; as, dithionic acid.
A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild irregular strain.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a dithyramb; wild and boisterous. A dithyrambic poem; a dithyramb.
See Dithyramb.
Dominion; rule.
A subject; a tributary.
Having two kinds of young, as certain annelids. Producing only two eggs for a clutch, as certain birds do.
A white, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C14H14, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.
The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).
Divided into twos or threes.
Containing two trochees.
A double trochee; a foot made up of two trochees.
An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, el/olite, and sodalite.
See Dit, n., 2.
A kind of peppergrass (Lepidium latifolium).
A plant of the Mint family (Origanum Dictamnus), a native of Crete. The Dictamnus Fraxinella. See Dictamnus. In America, the Cunila Mariana, a fragrant herb of the Mint family.
Set, sung, or composed as a ditty; -- usually in composition.
As before, or aforesaid; in the same manner; also.
A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text.
To sing; to warble a little tune.
A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife.
A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc.
One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide.
Free excretion of urine.
Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine. A medicine with diuretic properties.
Diuretic.
The quality of being diuretical; diuretic property.
A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.
A daybook; a journal.
A journalist.
Daily; every day.
The quality of being diurnal.
Continuance during the day.
Of long continuance; lasting.
Long duration; lastingness.
A prima donna.
A wandering about or going astray; digression.
Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.
A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz.
Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.
With divarication.
A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.
One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.
Devastated; laid waste.
A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.
A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick.
To rend apart.
Drawing asunder.
To pull in pieces.
One who, or that which, dives.
A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb.
To strike or sound through.
A sounding through.
To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.
Divergence.
A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.
Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.
Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.
In a diverging manner.
Different in kind or species; diverse.
To turn aside.
In different ways; differently; variously.
The quality of being diverse.
The quality or capacity of being diversifiable.
Capable of being diversified or varied.
The act of making various, or of changing form or quality.
Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.
One who, or that which, diversifies.
Of a different form; of varied forms.
To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Speaking in different ways.
The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
likely or designed to confuse or deceive; -- of tactics.
A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness.
Desiring different things.
A wayside inn.
To turn aside; to digress.
One who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases.
Capable of being diverted.
A turning; a byway; a bypath.
Pertaining to a diverticulum.
A blind tube branching out of a longer one.
A light and pleasing composition.
Amusing; entertaining.
To divert; to entertain.
Diversion; amusement; recreation.
A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play.
Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting.
The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the /Rich Man and Lazarus/ (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.
To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
Capable of being divested.
The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
The act of divesting.
Divestiture.
See Divot.
A small tree of tropical America (C/salpinia coriaria), whose legumes contain a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, and are used by tanners and dyers.
Capable of being divided; divisible.
Different; distinct.
A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; also called watershed and water parting. A divide on either side of which the waters drain into two different oceans is called a continental divide.
Parted; disunited; distributed.
Separately; in a divided manner.
A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.
Dividend; share.
One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.
That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.
By division.
Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others.
By dividing.
Divided; dividual.
The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.
One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.
Professing, or relating to, divination.
To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.
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